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A recent survey of 4,006 employees in North America and Europe found that 49 percent of mid-market managing directors (MDs) and C-level executives (CxOs) have used a personal email account to send sensitive business information.

Imaging software developer Accusoft has released a data study uncovering standard workplace practices around document management. The report addresses common document management policies and offers solutions to create a more efficient, secure workflow.

The machinery of government does not always run smoothly, particularly in the wake of the inevitable mergers and demergers of departments or agencies that take place after elections or ministerial reshuffles. This was definitely the case for one large NSW state government department, which faced a major challenge in 2016 to align two separate and unsupported deployments of TRIM for over 1800 users, while also preparing for a scheduled demerger of one of its agencies.

A new strain of ransomware, called Mamba, is circulating through multiple industries and crippling computers by encrypting entire hard drives.

In today’s litigious society, preserving your company’s data is a must if you (and your legal team) want to avoid hefty fines for data spoliation. But what about when you move to the cloud?

Our industry has seen repeated cycles of centralisation and decentralisation: Mainframe or Open Systems? On-premises, or off-premises: Build a DR site, or use Sungard? Which has been better? That’s the past. What I can say is that today, IT leaders see a great number of new choices in how to deploy their business content in the form of cloud connectors for legacy applications, and DevOps that makes use of any number of cloud stacks.

A leading provider of healthcare analytics and technology-enabled services, Intermedix, has developed a solution to address no-show patients using Dataiku Data Science Studio (DSS), its predictive analytics and data science platform.  The problem of patients missing scheduled appointments costs the healthcare industry billions of dollars of lost revenue each year. 

A decision of the NSW Court of Appeal sets a potentially dangerous precedent in the context of the effective use of electronic signatures to facilitate transactions, according to a review by HopgoodGanim Partner Paul Cullen, head of the law firm’s Banking and Finance practice

The 2014 compromise of a half billion user records at Yahoo! by a state-sponsored actor is shocking but not surprising.

The Northern Territory Department of Health has signed a $525k contract with Alcidion Group to utilise the company’s technology across the Royal Darwin and Alice Springs Hospitals. The Department employs 6,323 staff and manages five public hospitals, and is presently constructing the new Palmerston Regional Hospital, the Northern Territory’s most technologically advanced facility.